{"id":34428,"date":"2019-09-19T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=34428"},"modified":"2019-09-19T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:04:46","slug":"acn-assists-127000-families-in-syrian-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/09\/19\/acn-assists-127000-families-in-syrian-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"ACN ASSISTS 127,000 FAMILIES IN SYRIAN CONFLICT"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><figure id=\"attachment_34429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34429\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-580x348.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-860x517.jpg 860w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-1160x697.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Pope-Francis-with-ACN-delegation-91577-600x361.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Lady of Sorrows Consoler of Syrians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2011, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) financed 850 projects helping 127,000 families, including orphans, minors, and sick in Syria.\u00a0 With the support of benefactors, around 46,000 children, young people and students also benefitted from these projects, which provided emergency aid, pastoral care, and support to the livelihood of Christians in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second part of the \u201cConsole my People\u201d (Is 40:1) campaign for Syrian Christians organised byACN with Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Syria for families whose dear ones were abducted or killed during the eight years of conflict, commenced on Sunday 15th September 2019, with the blessing of the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Sorrows and Consolatrix of the Syrian people by Pope Francis at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pope Francis met with ACN delegation led by the International President of the Foundation Cardinal Mauro Piacenza. \u00a0Stephen Axisa, National Director of <strong>ACN (Malta)<\/strong>, Marie-Claude Lalonde, National Director of ACN (Canada) and Jonathan B. Luciano of ACN (Philippines) were present for this occasion.\u00a0 The delegation included Fr. Spiridon Kabbash, a Syriac Orthodox priest from Homs, Syria, who painted the icon for this campaign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34430\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-391x260.jpg 391w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-580x387.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-860x573.jpg 860w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/08-ACN-Fr-Spiridon-Kabbash-completing-the-icon-for-this-campaign-91566-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spiridon Kabbash, Greek Orthodox priest from Homs in Syria, the author of the icon during his work.<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the same day, 6,000 rosaries blessed earlier by Pope Francis, were distributed in parishes of all 34 Syrian dioceses \u2013 both Catholic and Orthodox.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Altogether, some 2,000 Christian families lost one or more loved ones during the conflict and 800 had a family member abducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2011, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) financed 850 projects helping 127,000 families, including orphans, minors, and sick in Syria.\u00a0 With the support of benefactors, around 46,000 children, young people and students also benefitted from these projects, which provided emergency aid, pastoral care, and support to the livelihood of Christians in Syria. 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